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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journals of the Continental Congress --TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1778
A letter from Mr. Wilkinson was read, desiring leave to resign his office of secretary to the Board of War:
Resolved, That his resignation be accepted, and that his letter be returned as improper to remain on the files of Congress.
A petition from H. Zedwitz was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of War.
A letter, of 9 January, from John Peck Rathbun, was read; also, one from Colonel B. Tupper:2
[Note 2: 2 The petition of Zedwitz is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 41, X, folio 741; the letter of Tupper is in No. 78, XXII, folio 557.]
Ordered, That they be referred to the Marine Committee.
The Marine Committee, to whom was referred the Letter of Colonel Benjamin Tupper of the 19th March, 1778, beg Leave to report, that a
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Copy of said Letter should be transmitted to Isaac Smith, Ebenezer Storer and William Phillips, Esquires, of Boston, who are Commissioners appointed by the Marine Committee to settle and adjust the accounts of Prizes, with the agent appointed by General Washington, &c., and to require the said Agents to pay the several proportions justly due to the Captors, &c.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of William Ellery, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 78, XXII, folio 561.]
A letter, of 27, from Colonel E. Blaine, deputy commissary general of purchases, was read:
Ordered, That it be referred to the Board of Treasury.
A letter of 26 February, from D. Cottineau, captain of the ship Ferdinand, at Cape Lookout, North Carolina, with an invoice of her cargo, was read:
Resolved, That the Committee of Commerce be authorized, after a conference with the Board of War and the Marine Committee, to purchase such articles of the cargo as they shall deem expedient for the public service.
Ordered, That the letter be referred to a committee of three:
The members chosen, Mr. [William] Duet, Mr. [Samuel] Chase, and Mr. F[rancis] L[ightfoot] Lee.
The Committee of Commerce, to whom was referred the letter from Mr. Gillon, brought in a report; Whereupon,
Resolved, That, as Mr. Gillon hath accepted of an appointment to command the navy of the State of South Carolina, and Congress have empowered their commissioner at Paris to appoint agents to transact the commercial affairs of these states, it is inexpedient to proceed upon his contract.
Congress was resolved into a committee of the whole, and, after some time, the President resumed the chair, and Mr. F[rancis] L[ightfoot] Lee reported, that the committee have had under their farther consideration
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the propositions relative to the army, but not having yet come to a conclusion, desire leave to sit again:
Resolved, That Congress, this afternoon, be resolved into a committee of the whole, to consider farther the propositions relative to the army.
Five o'Clock, p. m
Congress was again resolved into a committee of the whole, to consider farther the propositions relative to the army, and, after some time, the President resumed the chair, and Mr. F[rancis] L[ightfoot] Lee reported, that the committee have had under their farther consideration the propositions to them referred, and having come to a conclusion thereon, he was ready to report:
Ordered, That the consideration of the report be postponed till to morrow.
Adjourned to 9 o'Clock to Morrow.
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